Day at Sea in Mediterranean- May 18, 2009

It's funny that I don't have any pictures of our major activity for our only day at sea... but, they were having an Art 101 class, followed by a Live Art Auction... Chris was intrigued, and even though the Art 101 lecture was interesting, and we had never been to an auction... Long story short, I had to reign Chris in from getting way too caught up in the auction that lasted way, way too long... we finally ditched towards the end because we were starving. So even though that silly auction took most of our afternoon of our day on ship, we experienced a less than lively Live auction, and learned a little about some interesting artists, created a stalker of the auctioneer who overestimated our enthusiasm, and learned a valuable lesson for future cruises... avoid the crazy art auction people...

After that, we just wanted to relax, so we chilled in the Karaoke lounge where we took a nap overlooking the sea, and read a little of course. And naturally, we ate, a lot... and then we ate some more.

And we always loved finding ourselves out on deck, overlooking the beautiful sea. I was mesmerized by the unique and brilliant blue that really is special to the Mediterranean sea.
I've decided our next cruise needs to be with some friends or family, so we can swap cameras and get some decent photos of us together.... and it's funny to see now, what and when we remembered to take pictures and what we forgot! Oops... oh well...
Funny cruise notes... we loved the big shows that they did every night, this was a contraband photo of the singing/dancing group that performed about every other night. We liked to chill and watch the shows, particularly after the days of running all day. And we looked forward to our funny little newsletter we got each night in our cabin with the next days schedules, and info about our ports. It's the small and simple things, huh? Oh, and the cruise director would always open the show greeting the cruisers in at least 5 different languages... rather impressive and kind of funny.

It's funny how quickly we all fall into routines, even in a completely different place... in the mornings we would go to the buffet and Chris would always get a bowl of Cream of Wheat, while my plate was always piled with bacon, sausage, Belgian Waffles, and hash browns... I only wish I had discovered the brioche with marmalade sooner. At night, we would get dressed and ready, go to dinner in the nicer dining hall in time to make the 8:00 show, whereafter we would check out the games going on in the main lounge, where we would quickly decide to go get dessert and leftovers at the buffet and then eat more on the back of the ship overlooking the water. Then we would decide to can our earlier plans of going to the later entertainment because we always had early morning plans to get off early as soon as we were at port. And we loved to people watch, and had nicknames for all sorts of people. Good times...